Staff Platform Engineer

Bestow is a leading insurance technology platform serving some of the world's largest and most innovative life insurers. We are on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. Bestow is a team of mission-driven, results-oriented individuals. We offer all employees a remote (contiguous 48 only)/hybrid workplace, meaningful benefits, substantial growth opportunities, and equity.

Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program.

The engineering team is responsible for all technology powering Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We support our employees, consumers, and enterprise partners by delivering reliable, secure, and scalable systems. Our functional teams include product engineering, infrastructure, IT, data and analytics, martech, and program management. We work closely with product management and design to build the right solutions and continuously improve our platform.

This role reports to the Manager of Engineering and is open to remote employees in the U.S. (48 contiguous states only.)

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of foundational infrastructure systems that power Bestow’s products. You will architect complex solutions, set direction for technical initiatives, and influence cross-functional roadmaps. Your impact will extend beyond code – shaping the practices, standards, and strategy of the platform engineering group.

You’ll serve as a trusted technical partner across engineering, collaborating with stakeholders to identify systemic pain points and leading the delivery of platform capabilities that scale with the company. You will mentor engineers across levels and help grow the team’s capabilities through code, design, and thoughtful leadership.

If you're looking to shape the infrastructure of a modern cloud-native platform and drive high-impact technical strategy, we’d love to talk.

Challenges you’ll lead and shape:

Own Complex Cloud Infrastructure Initiatives

• Design, implement, and evolve large-scale systems and foundational infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.

• Define and advocate for architectural patterns and reliability principles across services and teams.

• Lead infrastructure-wide refactors, migrations, or modernization efforts (e.g., multi-region expansion, CI/CD scalability, cloud cost optimization).

Lead Platform-Wide Developer Enablement

• Build and own critical internal platforms that accelerate delivery for product engineers.

• Set the vision for observability, release safety, and configuration management strategies.

• Identify inefficiencies and lead cross-functional efforts to improve the overall developer experience.

Guide Operational Excellence and Resilience

• Lead the definition of SLOs, incident response practices, and resilience strategies across engineering.

• Drive post-incident reviews and systemic improvements, promoting a culture of reliability and learning.

• Define tooling and processes that reduce operational burden and improve recovery times.

• 8+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems at scale (e.g., GCP, AWS).

• You’re an expert in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation (Terraform, Pulumi, ArgoCD, CircleCI, etc.).

• You’re deeply familiar with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and can optimize for security, performance, and reliability.

• You have a strong software engineering background and are comfortable in languages like Go, Python, or TypeScript.

• You lead by influence and have a track record of driving alignment across teams through design docs, RFCs, and technical strategy.

• You mentor others with empathy and raise the technical bar through thoughtful code reviews and architectural guidance.

• You seek out high-leverage opportunities and operate with a product mindset, always considering long-term outcomes.

At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role

• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs 

• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting

• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

We're proud to be recognized as a top employer, consistently earning accolades for our exceptional workplace culture and commitment to our employees.

• We've been recognized year after year by Great Place to Work, Built In Best Places to Work, and Fortune's Best Workplaces in Texas (2022-2025).

• We've been named one of Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance (2022-2024), a CNBC and Statista World's Top Insurtech Company (2024), and one of The Financial Technology Report's Top Insurtech Companies (2024-2025).

• We're honored to be recognized as a Best Place for Working Parents for three consecutive years (2023-2025).

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will recruit, hire, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member. 

Thanks for considering a career at Bestow!

Compensation Range: $190K - $220K